Comparative Human Development

Hands reaching out of TV while a man watches a horror movie

Why scary movies are helping some people cope with the pandemic

Preschool children learning math at table with teacher

A new math intervention helps narrow achievement gap among preschoolers

Prof. Emeritus Richard Taub

Richard P. Taub, esteemed sociologist who studied Chicago neighborhoods, 1937–2020

Child alone at window

A deaf child gained hearing—then lost it. Was there a better way to help?

Reciprocal gesture

What nearly all languages have in common—whether you speak or sign

Community matters in suicide prevention, study finds

Comparative Human Development celebrates 75th anniversary

Dolphins keep lifelong social memories, longest in a non-human species

Richard Shweder BW

Richard A. Shweder

Title: Harold Higgins Swift Distinguished Service Professor

Expertise: Cultural anthropology, Psychology, Comparative Human Development

Departmental website: https://humdev.uchicago.edu/directory/richard-shweder